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Fig. 1 · G11 · open

ukulele chord

G11

G1B3D5F♭7A9C11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

0010

open · no 3, 5

Fig. 3

0553

easy · no 3, 5

What is true of it

G11 is G, B, D, F, A and C — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from G.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 0010: one finger, held at the 1st fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

It leaves out the 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are G, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G11/B

4010

7
second inversion

G11/D

7988

3
third inversion

G11/F

x553

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

G in other shapes

Gadd9added ninthG9dominant ninthGmaj9major ninthGmajorGmminorGdimdiminished

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